Sport: World's Records

Pole Vault. Last week in Boston a young man paced away from a
horizontal stick, set 13 ft. 7⅛ in. from the floor. Turning he rushed,
planted a spiked pole, and released all available springs. Sabin Carr
of Yale had set a new mark for indoor pole-vaulters to shoot at. He had
come within ⅞ in. of Charles Hoff's supreme effortwhich
did not count
because Mr. Hoff is a professional. Bluebird. In a Bluebird on the
Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Capt. Malcolm Campbell broke the
world's automobile record for a kilometre and for...